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In this paper, I attempt to identify the factors that lead some post-foster youth to successfully enter college. I decided to conduct this research in an effort to understand how to create educational equality for post-foster youth, who...
This research identifies and discusses the changes occurring in family organizational patterns in rural areas around the megacity of Chennai, India, as a result of expanded educational opportunity. Chennai is located in the state of...
Throughout the history of writing, avian iconification has proven to be an inextricable representation of the human pathos. Birds have long been prominent symbols in ancient cultures, mythologies, and pre-industrial civilizations....
Categorical perception refers to the enhanced discernibility of stimuli that exist in different innate or learned categories. This effect has been observed in many different contexts, ranging from speech phoneme differentiation (Liberman...
For the past sixty years the question of whether or not Pope Pius XII did all that he could to help the victims of the Holocaust has plagued the reputation and memory of his papacy. As the Vatican and Pope Francis continue proceedings...
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) is the most common type of TBI leading to other long-term neurodegenerative disorders. mTBI is known to effect a significant percentage of the men and women in athletics, military and motor vehicle...
Parenting styles are known to influence a child’s development, the present study investigates the relationship between parenting factors and child dissociative symptoms. Seventy parents and their children were participants in this study....
Perceptual training offers a promising, listener-targeted option for improving intelligibility in dysarthria, a motor speech disorder that results in facial muscle weakness. Previous research has demonstrated that people can learn...
The objective of Building Worlds; Creating an Affordable and Efficient Virtual Reality is to explore the phenomena of Virtual Reality (VR) through the marketing of its developing technologies, its future opportunities, and its potential...
The purpose of this thesis is to identify and discuss the complex local-tourist interactions in “contact zones” created through tourism and how these interactions cause social, cultural, economic, and environmental change. Surfing is a...
The thesis examines how four themes that inspired the foundation of Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement occur across three tiers of discourse, studying how the themes become transformed as they move across each tier, and ultimately...
Too often, the reasoning behind why individuals choose to immigrate tends to be a most important side of the story that is neglected in the midst of the political discourse over the controversies surrounding the topic of immigration, ...
Throughout the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, local musicians composed and performed music to combat mistrust of and misinformation surrounding the disease. Many artists participated in Ebola music campaigns live and online, either...
Debate over the ethics of belief has centered around two famous essays: W. K. Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief, and William James' The Will to Believe." The former argues that it is never morally right to believe or accept a...
We present a measurement of the W boson production charge asymmetry in proton-antiproton collisions in the electron channel through W-> e-nu decays using data collected with the DØ detector. The collision of an up quark with an antidown...
This creative report aims to present a snapshot of the songwriting approach used by RE (stage name), otherwise known as Rachel Espendez. The singer-songwriter shares her frame of mind regarding her original EP titled The Songwriter's...
The purpose of this study was to see if there is a relationship between teachers’ lexical diversity and their second grade students’ growth in lexical diversity throughout the school year.
This thesis, an interdisciplinary project entitled DEAD ELEMENTS, seeks to explore the complex relationship between performance and text. Seven common literary elements were selected and then interpreted both in a performative action and...
Sponges play important roles in supporting coastal marine ecosystem health and have been shown to have particularly important ecological significance in both mangrove and reef ecosystems where they are found abundantly. This study aims...
We studied the relationship between superconductivity and magnetism in the heavy fermion CeCoIn5 using a miniature cell in a top loading dilution refrigerator with a 16 T magnet (XCF – Xtreme Conditions Fridge). The construction and...
My project investigates an ancient Greek myth concerning the Titan Prometheus. I have taken the play that Aeschylus wrote on behalf of Prometheus and molded it into a devised piece of theatre. My actors have improvised with relationships...
Simulator sickness is a common occurrence when humans navigate virtual environments; some proportion of the population will experience nausea, disorientation, headache, and a number of other negative symptoms during and after an...
This thesis explores “leisure” as an important, if not vital, component in cross-cultural studies. I work through, what I perceive to be the formative time periods, the end of the nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth...
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